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Word: coaxial (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clause of the new regulations, however, limits the power of these stations to around a tenth of what they had been using. WHRB and about seventy other stations send their programs through steam pipes and coaxial cables, a process which takes a lot of power. If the cut is enforced, they will be reduced to broadcasting soft squeaks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Beam | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Died. Frank Baldwin Jewett, 70, who as head of Bell Telephone Laboratories led the development of the dial system and the transocean telephone, helped develop movies with sound, the modern electric phonograph, and the coaxial cable for television; after an operation; in Summit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...Coaxial cable will carry today's game further than any previous series, but the threat of rain may cloud up reception...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Series Fans Look for Video | 10/5/1949 | See Source »

...editor of Television Digest, reported a flutter of optimism: "Every speculation for fall is good. The reports are too uniform to be mere pep talk. The depression feeling has been completely reversed. With the big football schedules coming up and all the possible World Series towns now linked by coaxial cable, television ought to get off to a big start by fall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Leaning Tower of Babel | 8/15/1949 | See Source »

...innumerable airplanes, tanks and other radio-equipped vehicles. After winning his suit against the hard-to-sue Government, Crook thinks it will be easy to knock off airplane manufacturers and other unauthorized users. After that, he will try to prove that many important electrical devices, such as the coaxial cable, grew out of his patent. If he proves these points, the millions (about $5,000,000 from the Government, he figures) will shower down. "A reasonable settlement will have to be made," says reasonable Louis Crook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Happy Ending | 6/20/1949 | See Source »

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